Bio
Juliana Silva is a Colombian visual artist currently based in Vancouver, Canada. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National University of Colombia. In 2022, Silva was a grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts for her project Tactile Textile: Dance Forms in the Street. She was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2016 and 2019, and has been exhibiting her work in Colombia and Canada for over two decades. Silva works with sculpture, installation, photography, painting, and animation. Throughout her interdisciplinary exploration, Silva investigates how cultural meaning is expressed through objects and their materiality, particularly focusing on fabrics and textile ornaments that carry deep cultural significance. Her research examines these materials as artistic tools rich in historical and symbolic value. Recently, Silva has broadened her practice to include art-making as a meditative process. She emphasizes that art serves not only as a creative endeavour but also as an aesthetic experience that promotes well-being—an essential remedy for the demands of today’s fast-paced world.
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Juliana Silva (Colombia, 1980)
EDUCATION
2017 Master of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Arts & Design, Vancouver, CA
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Co
2003 Exchange student in Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, CA
RESIDENCIES
2025 Deer Lake Artist Residencies, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, CA (Coming Aug-Sept)
2019 Banff Artist in Residence, (The Creative Gesture: Costume Design for Dance), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA
2016 Banff Artist in Residence (Independent Residency – BAiR), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Grant Recipient, Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts, CA
2019 The Andrea Brussa Master Artist Endowment, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA
2018 Grant Recipient, 16th Salón Regional de Artistas, Ministerio de Cultura, Co
2015 Colfuturo Fellowship Recipient, Co
2003 Honorable Mention, 10th Salón Regional de Artistas, Bucaramanga, Co
EXHIBITIONS
One Person Exhibitions
2025 Dance Forms in the Street, Off-site exhibition Richmond Art Gallery at Richmond City Hall Galleria, CA
2024 Dance Forms in the Street, Display Window, Trout Lake Community Centre, Vancouver, CA
2018 Ropa Blanca, Museo La Bagatela, Cúcuta, Co
2018 Ropa Blanca, Site-specific installation, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Vancouver, CA
2014 Objetos Suntuarios, Cámara de Comercio, Bucaramanga, Co
2012 Recetas para la felicidad, Galería Leopold Sedar SENGHOR, Alliance Francaise, Bucaramanga, Co
Group Exhibitions
2022 Deshilar, La revolución cotidiana, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Co
2019 Mujeres en cuerpo y alma, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co
2018 Intertwined, Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA.
2018 La Costura abierta, Cali Cultural Center, Cali, Co
2018 Iconografías femeninas, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co
2017 A Cabinet of Curiosities, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2017 Grad Show 2017, Charles Scott Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2017 Living Organisms for Living Spaces – Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA
2016 WHITINSIGHT, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA
2015 Diez años del Programa Jóvenes Talentos, Cámara de Comercio, Bucaramanga, Co
2015 No Copyright, Instituto Municipal de Cultura. Bucaramanga, Co.
2014 Punto de encuentro: Artistas de Santander, Fundación Escuela Taller Barichara, Co
2014 Lenguas de Luz, LA Galería, Bogotá, Co
2014 Entre Ciudades, Museo de Norte de Santander y Ciudad de Cúcuta, Cúcuta, Co
2014 Entre Ciudades, Cámara de Comercio, Bucaramanga, Co.
2013 Nos vemos en el centro, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co
2012 Horas prácticas, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Co
2011 Nuevos espacios pictóricos 5, Galería Leopold Sedar SENGHOR, Alliance Francaise, Bucaramanga, Co
2006 + Arte – Minas, Galería La Balsa, Bogotá, Co
2005 Arte Joven 2005, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Co
2005 Zucaina, Galería Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogotá, Co
2005 XI Muestra de trabajos de grado, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Co
2004 39 Salón Nacional de Artistas, Museo de artes de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Co
2004 Elsewhere, VAV Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, CA
2003 10 Salón Regional de Artistas, Centro Cultural del Oriente, Bucaramanga, Co
PRESENTATIONS
Living Organisms for Living Spaces: Shifting the Function of the Material.Textile Society of America’s 16th Biennial Symposium. The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global, Vancouver. September 19-23, 2018
WRITING
Living Organisms for Living Spaces: Shifting the function of material. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2018 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2112&context=tsaconf
Materiales, decepciones y malos comportamientos, Curatorial text, August 2017.
Artistas plásticos según su público: Análisis de la plástica bumanguesa desde la visión del espectador. Revista Calle 14, Vol. 8, Número 12, January- April de 2014. http://issuu.com/revistacallecatorceinvestigacion/docs/articulo_
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Cámara de Combate – Carlos Colín, The Cinematheque Courtyard, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Vancouver, CA, Aug 22- Sep 1, 2019
Materiales, decepciones y malos comportamientos, Sala Macaregua, Universidad Industrial de Santander Bucaramanga, Co, 2017
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
BAUTISTA, Sandra Patricia. “Hey Chicas! ¿donde están? Poéticas de acción y reacción del género femenino en el arte Colombiano desde 1980 hasta nuestros días”. Enredars Publicaciones, Sevilla, Spain, 2018 https://www.upo.es/investiga/enredars/?page_id=1114
TOLOZA, Jose Germán. “Cómo se aproximan los artistas contemporáneos al tema de la mujer. En torno a la curaduría iconografías femeninas”. I+D Revista De Investigaciones, vol. 14, no. 2, 2019, pp. 102–119., doi:10.33304/revinv.v14n2-2019011. http://www.udi.edu.co/revistainvestigaciones/index.php/ID/article/view/218
Cámara de Comercio de Bucaramanga. Nuevos Talentos 10 años. Book. Bucaramanga. December, 2015.
ARDILA, María Elvira. Arte Jóven 2005, in: El Tiempo Newspaper, Bogota. November 19th, 2005. Arte Joven Colombiano
Los Nuevos del Salón, in: Cambio Magazine # 578, Bogota. July 26th, 2004.
MARTÍNEZ, Serafín. Bienvenidos al Cuento de Hadas in: Cátedra Libre Newspaper, Bucaramanga. February, 2004. Bienvenidos al cuento de hadas
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